A nice day for the most part, though heavy showers towards the end of the day. This morning a cuckoo was calling from the overhead wires above the burn which divides the two villages of Port Wemyss and Portnahaven. Nice to hear, and for the superstitious if you hear the cuckoo, you'll live an other year. An other superstition tied with the cuckoo was that it was very bad luck to hear the first one on an empty stomach. My dad wouldn't leave the house without eating at least a biscuit until he heard the first of the year!
Elsewhere on the island, James had a spotted flycatcher at Loch Gruinart this morning, while Andy R. spotted a pair of shoveller on a small pool on the drive up to Ardnave. David D. on The Oa noted a solo whimbrel on Kilnaughton beach, then a pair of twite feeding on the grass near the Co-op in Port Ellen. Jackie and Daves last day today, they enjoyed good views of 3 GND today off Ardnave coast, while overhead 2 golden plover and one greenshank flew over Ardnave loch. High above Loch Gruinart at WTE was being mobbed gulls.
Thanks for all sightings today folks, its not much of a blog without them!
No photos today, not even from Billy! So instead I've borrowed from my sister on Isle of Kerrera who enjoyed the resident grouse lekking while out on the lambing rounds. The red grouse was especially easy to photograph after taking offence to the quad bike engine!
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